1658 in music
# 1658 in music

The year 1658 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Johann Jacob Froberger leaves Vienna for the last time.
* Sir William Davenant's "operatic show," The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru, is staged at the Cockpit Theatre in London during the summer.

## Publications

* Antoine de Cousu – Musique universelle, contenant toute la pratique, et toute la théorie
* Johann Jacob Froberger – Libro terzo, A-Wn Mus.Hs.16560
* Henry Lawes – Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two and Three Voyces, vol. 3
* Etienne Moulinié – Meslanges de sujets Chrestiens ... avec une basse continue, a collection of sacred music

## Classical music

* Johann Rudolf Ahle -- Ich hab's gewagt
* Louis Couperin – Ave Maris Stella, OL 9
* Andreas Hammerschmidt – chorale: Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, after Christian Keymann's hymn
* Jean-Baptiste Lully – Ballet d'Alcidiane, LWV 9

## Opera

* Johann Caspar Kerll – Applausi Festivi

## Births

* April 22 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (died 1709)
* October 11 – Christian Heinrich Postel, librettist (died 1705)
* date unknown
   * Maria Francesca Nascimbeni, Italian composer (died 1680)
   * Johann Georg Rauch I, composer (died 1710)
* probable – Jean Desfontaines, composer (died c.1752)

## Deaths

* March – Valentin Dretzel, composer
* September 17 – Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, lyricist
* August 11 – Antoine de Cousu, composer and theorist
* August 27 – Stefano Fabri, Jr., musician
* November 15 – Jacobus Revius, lyricist
* probable
   * Dario Castello, Italian composer (born c.1590)
   * Henry Ferrabosco, English court musician
